Northwest Passages Book Club The Spokesman-Review

The Northwest Passages Book Club meets for a discussion with author Jesse Walter, interviewed by author Shawn Vestal, at the Bing Crosby Theater in Spokane, Washington. The interview was centered on Walter releasing a new collection of short stories, "Angel of Rome"

Eli Francovich was dispatched as correspondent to cover the war in Ukraine for The Spokesman-Review. With approximately 30,000 Ukrainian refugees calling Spokane home, what happens in Ukraine has a little more impact in the Pacific Northwest. Francovich talks about his experience and shares his behind the scenes photographs.

Author Mary Cronk Farrell has written books about women who many have not heard of until she wrote the book. One of those is French photojournalist Catherine LeRoy, who went to cover the Vietnam War as a 21-year-old. Farrell spoke to the Northwest Passage Book Club Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at the Montvale Event Center in Spokane, Washington.

Author Sasha LaPointe sits down with Emma Noyes to talk about her book, "Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk", at a live session of The Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages Book Club.
An indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this bold, contemporary journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power and voice while searching for a permanent home.



2020 Washington State Book Award Finalist Elissa Washuta wrote: “Red Paint is a miraculous book. Sasha LaPointe walks us through the sites of her evisceration while rebuilding a home within her body using sturdy materials: rose quartz, cedar bark, red clay, and the words of her ancestors. With each potent sentence, she shows us what access to power looks like. She shows us how to become whole.”

Author Victorya Rouse, a Ferris High School English teacher focused on new arrivals in America, collected the stories of her immigrant students into a book called "Finding Refuge." She speaks with author Shawn Vestal about the book at a Northwest Passages event in Spokane on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021.

YA author Sundee Frazier talks about her new book, "Mighty Inside" with Kiantha Duncan at the Tuesday, Oct. 19th edition of the Northwest Passages Book Club at the Montvale Event Center. The story is based on her own families' experience as the first Black family to move into Spokane's Empire Avenue neighborhood in the 1940s.